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March 2018

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First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

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March 9, 2018

First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

Researchers describe Gammarus plaitisi (a Gammarid amphipod), endemic to Cretan streams. The divergence of the new species is strongly connected to the geological history of the island.

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March 30, 2018

Comparative genome analysis of 24 bovine-associated Staphylococcus isolates with special focus on the putative virulence genes

Silja Åvall-Jääskeläinen, Suvi Taponen, Ravi Kant, Lars Paulin, Jochen Blom, Airi Palva, Joanna Koort

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4560 PubMed 29610707

March 30, 2018

Acidification increases abundances of Vibrionales and Planctomycetia associated to a seaweed-grazer system: potential consequences for disease and prey digestion efficiency

Tania Aires, Alexandra Serebryakova, Frédérique Viard, Ester A. Serrão, Aschwin H. Engelen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4377 PubMed 29610702

March 29, 2018

Determining the numbers of a landscape architect species (Tapirus terrestris), using footprints

Danielle O. Moreira, Sky K. Alibhai, Zoe C. Jewell, Cristina J. da Cunha, Jardel B. Seibert, Andressa Gatti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4591 PubMed 29610711

March 29, 2018

A revision of Haematodes Laporte and Weiserianum Bernhauer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Xanthopygina)

Adam J. Brunke, Stylianos Chatzimanolis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4582 PubMed 29610710

March 29, 2018

Simulated Disperser Analysis: determining the number of loci required to genetically identify dispersers

Adam P.A. Cardilini, Craig D.H. Sherman, William B. Sherwin, Lee A. Rollins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4573 PubMed 29610709

March 29, 2018

The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals

Arielle Waldstein Parsons, Christine Goforth, Robert Costello, Roland Kays

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4536 PubMed 29610706

March 29, 2018

The importance of sponges and mangroves in supporting fish communities on degraded coral reefs in Caribbean Panama

Janina Seemann, Alexandra Yingst, Rick D. Stuart-Smith, Graham J. Edgar, Andrew H. Altieri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4455 PubMed 29610704

March 28, 2018

Limb-use by foraging marine turtles, an evolutionary perspective

Jessica A. Fujii, Don McLeish, Andrew J. Brooks, John Gaskell, Kyle S. Van Houtan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4565 PubMed 29610708

March 28, 2018

Osteology of Batrachuperus londongensis (Urodela, Hynobiidae): study of bony anatomy of a facultatively neotenic salamander from Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China

Jian-ping Jiang, Jia Jia, Meihua Zhang, Ke-Qin Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4517 PubMed 29610705

March 27, 2018

Genetic diversity and molecular evolution of Ornithogalum mosaic virus based on the coat protein gene sequence

Fangluan Gao, Zhenguo Du, Jianguo Shen, Hongkai Yang, Furong Liao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4550 PubMed 29607262

March 27, 2018

Genome rearrangements and phylogeny reconstruction in Yersinia pestis

Olga O. Bochkareva, Natalia O. Dranenko, Elena S. Ocheredko, German M. Kanevsky, Yaroslav N. Lozinsky, Vera A. Khalaycheva, Irena I. Artamonova, Mikhail S. Gelfand

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4545 PubMed 29607260

March 27, 2018

Infection by Parorchis acanthus (Trematoda) decreases grazing by the keystone gastropod, Littoraria irrorata

Joseph P. Morton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4544 PubMed 29607259

March 27, 2018

Playing by the rules? Phenotypic adaptation to temperate environments in an American marsupial

Sergio F. Nigenda-Morales, Ryan J. Harrigan, Robert K. Wayne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4512 PubMed 29607255

March 27, 2018

Detection of PCV2e strains in Southeast China

Jiankui Liu, Chunhua Wei, Ailing Dai, Zhifeng Lin, Kewei Fan, Jianlin Fan, Jiayue Liu, Manlin Luo, Xiaoyan Yang